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In accordance with Article 97(3) of Law no. 50/2008, utility models (UM), registered in the Republic of Moldova before the entry into force of said Law, shall remain valid and may be renewed, even if the receipt of UM registration applications was ceased. On 31 December 2014, of the total number of 185 issued UM registration certificates were valid 13, all being renewed.
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Trends or areas experiencing rapid changes
During 2014, 297 patent applications for invention were filed with the AGEPI, with 12 applications less than in 2013.
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Patents:
The front page and the specification are printed, the incorporated drawings being scanned.
2) CD-ROM
National CD-ROM „Inventions "Inventions of the Republic of Moldova, 1993-2013", containing bibliographic data and abstracts in 3 languages (Romanian, English and Russian) for patent applications; bibliographic data, abstracts and specifications for patents. This CD-ROM is renewed annually by adding the data for the last year.
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AGEPI has a complete classified paper collection of MD patent documents. This collecton collection has been scanned and stored on file servers being available to our examiners. The full data relating to MD patent documents, excepting some of the old author certificates of the former URSS based patents, are stored in the internal database.
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The online "patents" search database, can be used by examiners and other interested persons to search through the MD published patent applications/short term applications and granted patents/short term patents, as well as through utility models. There is also another online "Inventions" search database that contains bibliographic data of Certificates of authorship of the USSR that were published in the 1963-1992 period. The offline search database, is used by examiners in conducting the examining procedure by searching through all of the MD applications and patents.-
- EAPATIS, administered by EAPO;
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- Espacenet
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- PATENTSCOPE
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- RUPAT
Information products and patent document collections (coverage, medium, etc.) available to external users, conditions of access (e.g., free of charge, subscription, etc.)
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The Patent Office uses Microsoft Office suite 2007 or 2010. All of the patent related information and documents are entered in MS Word trough internal in house built patent IT system. This system has several applications, like the main patent management application, fees management, patent valabilityvalidity, statistics applications, and also some data exporting tools. Upon opening, patent documents are automatically formatted and corrected (characters encoding, degree character's, appearance of cyrillic Cyrillic letters in non cyrillic Cyrillic words and viceversavice-versa, etc). All of the other documents like correspondence letters, publication files, miscellaneous reports, etc. are generated using the same system. Although all of our patents are scanned once entered into archive we are planning to scan them upon arrival and to have a fully functional electronic dossier and electronic archive. We are also developing a system for the european European applications that requested validation in Moldova.
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All MD patent documents are electronically stored and searchable for internal use; all published MD patent applications (abstracts) and patents (full text) are electronically searchable for external use.
Updating
Paper and some CD/DVD-ROM search files are updated monthly, several CD-DVD/ROM search files are updated yearly. Electronically searchable files for internal use are updated permanently depending of filings; electronically searchable files for external use are updated monthly.
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The Library is a subdivision in AGEPI structure that provides information-library services in the field of intellectual property to beneficiaries. The AGEPI Library is the depositary depository of the National Patent Collection of the Republic of Moldova. The Library has a reading room with the equipment necessary to use the information on various media and from various sources, including the Internet. Beneficiaries of services provided by the library are experts and other collaborators of AGEPI, and all interested persons outside the institution: counselors in intellectual property, researchers, inventors and rationalizers, teachers, students, etc.
At the Library visitors have the possibility to:-
- consult, subscribe to or purchase the official publications of AGEPI in the field of intellectual property - BOPI, “Intellectus”, “AGEPI INFO”, etc., collections of laws and methodical literature in the field of intellectual property, CDs edited by AGEPI;
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- obtain copies of the descriptions of inventions from patents for invention;
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- get methodological assistance in searching for information in electronic DB;
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- library-bibliographic servicing in “request-offer”, “information-express” regime, by complying with the bibliographic, thematic and factual references;
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- participate in IP information promotion activities at local and national level.
Open hours for beneficiaries: From 9.00 to 16.00 Monday - Friday. Day without a program - Saturday and Sunday.
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The AGEPI Library has collections of specialized literature structured according to objects of intellectual property, methodical and scientific literature, of legal, informative and cognitive character, including:-
- Patents for Inventions protected in the Republic of Moldova - about 7500 units (see DB “Inventions”);
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- Official Bulletins of Intellectual Property of IP Offices from 37 countries and 4 international organizations purchased under bilateral exchange - about 6000 units;
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- Electronic databases on intellectual property (available on 01.01.2008) - 34 with a total of 23,744,839 of documents;
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- Books in intellectual property, legal documents, normative acts, international treaties and agreements, dictionaries and encyclopedias in different branches of economy, official and methodical publications of AGEPI - about 5000 copies.
The The new acquisitions of the AGEPI Library IP fund can be accessed on AGEPI web page: http://www.agepi.gov.md
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In the period under review, AGEPI participated as organizer and coorganizer co-organizer of a large number of national events aimed to promote the intellectual property and the benefits for its protection. Here we have to mention 18 national exhibitions in the framework of which the AGEPI experts have participated with reports, about 55 seminars, training courses, organized for public and educational institutions, libraries and entrepreneurs.
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Eurasian Patent Office, quarterly, bibliographic data in ACCESS database, abstracts, claims, images, in pdf PDF files.
- Rospatent (CISPATENT), the bibliographic data and abstracts for published applications and issued patents and full patent information for granted patents, in both XML St.36 and MSWORD MS WORD formats
- AGEPI furnished the MD patent documents and the official gazette (BOPI) on CD-ROM to 41 IP Offices and receives patent documentation and information from 35 countries and 2 regional patent organizations (EPO and EAPO).
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7) Regional conference entitled “Redefining Landscape for Patent Protection in Europe” organized by the State Patent Bureau of the Republic of Lithuania (SPB) in co-operation with the European Patent Office (EPO) - 9 october October 2014, Vilnius, Lithuania
8) The 21st session of the WIPO Standing Committee for patents right - 3 to 7 november November 2014, Geneva, Switzerland
9) EPO Conference – Patent Information, organized by EPO in cooperation with Poland Patent Office - 4 to 6 November 2014, WarshawWarsaw, Poland
10) Training of China Patent System - 7 to 13 December 2014, Beijing, China.
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